Elmer and Etta Ball Ranch

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.

From the record

One of 36 National Register listings published here for Weld County · listed in 1991 · category: District.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Listed as. Ball, Elmer and Etta, Ranch - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Weld Co. Rd. 69 W of Briggsdale, Briggsdale, 80611
When was it listed? October 1991
Category. district
Also known as. Historic Farms and Ranches of Weld County MPS
Census division. Kersey-Gill
National Register reference number. 91001533 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

34 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Elmer and Etta Ball Ranch between 1999 and 2020, burning about 4,742 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	28
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Arson/incendiarism	1
Other causes	1
Natural	1
Debris and open burning	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
8 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	40 acres	Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland	LITTLE SAND
3 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland	COUNTY ROAD 88
16 September 2020	Other causes	63 acres	Briggsdale Fire Department	N/A
7 August 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	711 acres	Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland	SAND CREEK
27 July 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.6 acres	Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland	SNOW FENCE
16 July 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Lincoln County	UNKNOWN
15 July 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland	77
14 July 2019	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland	CROW

Every fire recorded in Weld County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Elmer and Etta Ball Ranch: 3 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence	Gravel
Unnamed Uranium Occurrence	Uranium	Occurrence
Unnamed Uranium Occurrence	Uranium	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Weld County

Storms near this property

42 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Briggsdale, the town this property stands in, in 42 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 22 hail, 17 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 lightning. The reports record 1 injury. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2002	Lightning	Briggsdale	1 hurt	A farmer was struck by lightning while standing on hay bales. The 39-year old man suffered minor injuries.
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Briggsdale	$500	A farmer reported a chicken coop was destroyed by thunderstorm winds in Briggsdale (24 miles northeast of Greeley).
July 2025	Hail	Briggsdale	-	Report from mping.
May 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Briggsdale	-	Raws station Crow Creek.
August 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Briggsdale	-	Crow Creek RAWS weather station reported the strong winds.
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Briggsdale	-	Thunderstorm winds, gusting to 56 mph (49 knots), blew across portions of Weld County. The winds knocked down trees and fences in La Salle (25 miles southeast of Fort Collins).
May 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Briggsdale	-	National Weather Service automated mesonet station recorded a thunderstorm gust to 59 mph.
July 2023	Hail	Briggsdale	-	no account filed
July 2023	Hail	Briggsdale	-	no account filed
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Briggsdale	-	no account filed
August 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Briggsdale	-	no account filed
August 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Briggsdale	-	no account filed
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Briggsdale	-	no account filed
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Briggsdale	-	no account filed
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Briggsdale	-	no account filed
May 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Briggsdale	-	no account filed
June 2015	Hail	Briggsdale	-	no account filed
August 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Briggsdale	-	no account filed
July 2013	Hail	Briggsdale	-	no account filed
July 2013	Hail	Briggsdale	-	no account filed
June 2012	Hail	Briggsdale	-	no account filed
June 2012	Hail	Briggsdale	-	no account filed
May 2010	Hail	Briggsdale	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Briggsdale	-	no account filed
August 2008	Hail	Briggsdale	-	no account filed
May 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Briggsdale	-	no account filed
April 2005	Hail	Briggsdale	-	no account filed
April 2005	Hail	Briggsdale	-	no account filed
April 2005	Hail	Briggsdale	-	no account filed
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Briggsdale	-	no account filed
June 2003	Hail	Briggsdale	-	no account filed
August 2002	Hail	Briggsdale	-	no account filed
August 2002	Hail	Briggsdale	-	no account filed
May 2000	Tornado (F0)	Briggsdale	-	no account filed
May 2000	Tornado (F0)	Briggsdale	-	no account filed
July 2000	Hail	Briggsdale	-	no account filed
June 1997	Hail	Briggsdale	-	no account filed
June 1997	Hail	Briggsdale	-	no account filed
June 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Briggsdale	-	no account filed
May 1997	Hail	Briggsdale	-	no account filed
June 1995	Hail	Briggsdale	-	no account filed
June 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Briggsdale	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Weld County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 91001533 in Record Group 79.
Weld County	All 36 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.